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Wayland is very restrictive in what it allows and taking screenshot directly is not something they do allow so under Wayland we have to use the Portal, which is basically a Bus call where we notify Plasma that we would like to take a screenshot and what happens after that is up to Plasma, so also the dialog that pops up and the options that it provides. The KDE guys (same goes for Gnome) have been so smart to allow their own applications to bypass this restriction so that is why you see a different behavior for Spectacle, which is developed by KDE but as we are not developed by KDE or Gnome so he have to go through the Portal. I have tried to bring this to their attention, that the usability of the Portal is crap, but so far it didn't get much of attention, that is why I don't use Wayland. |
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On Nate Graham blog, we can read...
Can this help to solve the problem with ksnip, wayland, portal and rectangular areas? |
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By now, I can take rectangular screenshots in wayland using spectacle and automatically open them in ksnip (that way I can benefit from the editing tools and tabs of ksnip) with this command:
It's a big mess, but for what I need, it works! |
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I love the new touch gestures for kde 5.25, as I use them on my laptop, however these gestures are only for the wayland version, and I would love to use ksnip's capture rectangular area feature for all my screenshots, I think it is the most intuitive and best for not including things I don't want to have captured. I know spectacle has this support on wayland, and I have no idea on how you would go about adding this support, but I think it would be very well received and appreciated.
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